Show Pineapples Catch Crop i 4 Although pineapples pineapples pineapples' are grown rather extensively extensively exten exten- in the Straits Settlements the canning of thIs fruit being one of the most flourishing of the mInor IndustrIes there appears to be little definite and actual Information lon available as to the acreage Inform to tou on in the different localities according production Campbell detailed as vice consul Consul u Harry Straits Settlements at Singapore Pineapples are for the most part raised as its a a. a ait j J connection with rubber Plantations plantation's In catch crop easIly and with little since they can be the grown rubber very trees durIng the cost between of their growth gro This prod three years or been especially attractive to plant planters rs has small on the havIng mostly affords the planter are anin as it Singapore of island the rubber trees are that during the years come proxImity to the cannIng can can- bearIng while Into comIng makes the marketing factorIes of SIngapore nIng S S' S SIt simple and InexPensIve f of pine pine- pineapples estimated d tt that t d about w 2000 acres acre It Is u estates on the ti Pla planted e on rubber i apples were In n 1916 1013 Any definite figures Island sand of SIngapore other parts 0 ot the L peninsula ore are to acreage In n m In as It appears that the industry not available but states Is not Important beto be- be beIng belag the Federated almost Maly 1 entirely to to small plots for local loca lag Ing limited market purposes pIneapples from the of The value of the exports during 1916 was Straits Settlements r r T 7 I f f S i I r 4 adr x |